Data Associate
AI summary of the role
Own and deeply understand data and logic powering Bridgewater's systematic trading systems within the Investment Implementation department.
What you’ll do
- Understand and validate investment data concepts (pricing, macro, fundamentals, alternative data)
- Ensure data accuracy for market, security master, and time-series data
- Evolve data logic and workflows to improve investment systems
- Collaborate with vendors, engineers, and data consumers
What you’ll bring
- 2-4 years relevant data experience
- Strong knowledge of financial data (Bloomberg, Refinitiv)
- Experience with time-series and security master data
- Familiarity with data modeling, pipelines, Snowflake, AWS
Technologies
Bloomberg · Refinitiv · Snowflake · AWS · time-series · security master · data pipelines · LLM
About Bridgewater Associates
Systematic global macro investor serving large institutions with diversified strategies, risk-parity products, and AI-augmented research.
Private Late · 1000–2000 people
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which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else. About the Investment Implementation Department The Investment Implementation department is a community of diverse investment professionals whose mission is to implement our investment strategies and client portfolios excellently. Our Department is responsible for ensuring the excellent implementation of our systematic investment approach, from raw data to executed trades, with processes and logic that reflect the full richness of our investment insight, executed with a near-zero error rate, and engineered and orchestrated
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About Bridgewater Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting-edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles. Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment to excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture. Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here. Our Culture Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interes [... source excerpt omitted ...] Implementation Department The Investment Implementation department is a community of diverse investment professionals whose mission is to implement our investment strategies and client portfolios excellently. Our Department is responsible for ensuring the excellent implementation of our systematic investment approach, from raw data to executed trades, with processes and logic that reflect the full richness of our investment insight, executed with a near-zero error rate, and engineered and orchestrated in a way that facilitates oversight and compounding. This is an investment department, owning the investment outcomes, and the mandate includes both the ‘run’ responsibility and [... source excerpt omitted ...] nsibility, meaning daily operations as well as over time renovation of our systems. We fulfill our mission by applying four operating principles: Understand and deliver internal client needs. Partner with our internal clients to understand, offer implementation designs, and deliver solutions, while proactively educating and communicating outcomes to ACLs (Asset Class Leads) and CIOs. Own our investment intent. Own our investment intent in full, in letter and spirit. Continuously improve. Have and evolve an investment pipeline to meet current and future internal client needs. Systematically and relentlessly deliver quality outcomes. Apply our best logic systematically, disc
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